Quotes of Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now - somelinesforyou

“ It’s a way we had over here with living with ourselves. We cut ’em in half with a machine gun and give ’em a Band. Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ And what would his people back home want if they ever learned just how far from them he’d really gone? He broke from them, and then he broke from himself. I’d never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action – what is often called ruthless – what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that’s who he really took his orders from anyway. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ Oh man… the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ You’ll never find out about yourself working in some fucking factory in Ohio. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now

“ No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command’s ass. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away. ”

- Captain Benjamin Willard Apocalypse Now
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